I was just telling someone at work today about how I thought I killed my cucumber plant only to come home and find a new cucumber growing! I have no idea where this new cucumber came from. I just recently checked on the plant and declared it dead. Amazing! I'm not a true gardener since I don't like all the work involved with weeding and clearing a special area and placing so many seeds so many inches apart and so many inches deep. Not my style. I just usually dig a hole in the middle of the grass in the backyard somewhere and lovingly sprinkle in a few seeds and water the general area every now and then. Something ALWAYS grows! Gotta LOVE nature!
I think it is extremely important for my children to participate in this process and William actually eats the food we grow! We don't put up any fences to keep the animals away and are more than happy to share our veggies with the neighborhood critters. There might be a new bunny making a home in this year's tomato plant. I deleted the posts about last year's bunny so I'll snap some photos of this little one if he decides to make a home in our yard like the other rabbit did.
Something about this whole line of thought reminds me of the Packets of Light poem by StoryPeople. "These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are." - Brian Andreas
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